A Business’ Guide to Surviving a Disaster

October 29, 2018 / GuidesFor Team

Every so often, news items about fire, hurricane, earthquakes, and other natural disasters make it to people’s consciousness. Together with data of damages, displaced people, and other logistical concerns, images of devastation also speak volumes about the effects of such disasters. But in the 21st century, these are no longer limited to the physical kind as, data disasters also wreak great havoc among businesses, institutions, and individuals.

In recent history, data disasters have alerted several companies in different industries. American IS Technology Services ranked the top five biggest data disasters in history. Although there are different means by which data have been compromised, the common denominator of all these is that clients felt their private information have been jeopardized.

Today, with cloud systems in place, the fears of data disasters are also getting bigger. Spoiler alert: there is no one system that is guaranteed, 100% disaster-proof. However, businesses can consider a few tips to quickly resolve, avert, and block any threats. – Crischellyn Abayon

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The cloud services market is growing rapidly, presenting a large revenue opportunity for cloud service providers. To compete in this fast-paced market, you need an infrastructure that lets you securely deliver services to multiple tenants, streamline operations, track usage and chargeback, and adapt quickly to technology changes. Scalability, flexibility, and efficiency are essential to differentiating your business.

We have distilled public cloud adoption considerations into a short list, selecting considerations relevant to choosing a public cloud environment for Infrastructure-as-a-Service. As many of these considerations also apply in various degrees to other types of services, as well as to hybrid IT infrastructures more broadly, also consider your own detailed IT governance plans and best practices—as well as the external risk assessment and security controls documents of your choice.

Usually characterized as conservative and resistant to change, the financial services industry has been challenged by financial technology (fintech) companies that compete by combining digital transformation, social media, and big data analytics to replace traditional models with innovative, data-led approaches and modernized IT infrastructures.